Atoll fruit dove (Ptilinopus coralensis) Photo taken on the Atoll of Fakarava- Tuamotu Archipelago Sept, 6,2019
Date 6 September 2018
Author Meheriolax
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The atoll fruit dove (Ptilinopus coralensis) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to the Tuamotu archipelago in French Polynesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and plantations. The atoll fruit dove is the world's only dove in the tropical Pacific that has adapted exclusively to low coral atolls. It lives in forests and abandoned coconut plantations.
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus coralensis Peale, 1848